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We join four people from around the world on the day of their citizenship Prog 1: Kosovo-Albanian Blerim recounts his dramatic journey from illegal Prog 2: Marwan escaped from Saddam's Prog 3: Polish-born Joanna came to Britain as a rebellious teenager. Now Prog 4: Morris grew up in Sierra Leone, a former British colony. He wants to help create the hardworking, god-fearing Britain he heard about as a child.
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THE ITALIAN JOB Parmalat : Europe's biggest corporate scandal "While the farmers were milking their cows, Mr Tanzi, founder of Parmalat, was milking the Italians," complains one farm worker bitterly. Thousands of jobs are now on the line as investigators struggled to trace Parmalat's missing billions. Gianfranco Bocchi, Parmalat's chief accountant, is thought to have been responsible for falsifying the accounts. His wife Ilaria believes he was forced to go along with his bosses' plans: "I think he was asked to do certain things and out of loyalty, thought he would do it to save the company," she says. "I don't think his intention was to defraud." However this comes as scant consolation to betrayed investors. Lawyer Carlo Zauli believes that Parmalat's executives were aided by some of the world's biggest banks. He claims to have tracked down [word missing] and out of loyalty, thought he would do it to save the company," she says. "I don't think his intention was to defraud." However this comes as scant consolation to betrayed investors. Lawyer Carlo Zauli believes that Parmalat's executives were aided by some of the world's biggest banks. He claims to have tracked down some of Parmalat's missing billions to an offshore Bank of America account. And as prosecutors probe Parmalat's affairs, the role other companies played in its collapse can only come under closer scrutiny.
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Over 11,000 Portuguese women are hospitalised every year after resorting to back street terminations. Anabela Moriera's sister was just one. She died after drinking bleach in an attempt to end her unwanted pregnancy. "They removed all her insides because she was completely
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GANGS OF BELGRADE Inside the criminal empires at the heart of Europe The motorcade carrying Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic took its usual route to the Serbian parliament on 12th of March, arriving at the parking lot in the back at 12.35 am. The silver haired premier was due to give a speech to an anti-corruption body he had just set up. But two shots The sniper from a nearby window was deadly. At 12.40 am, footage of the Prime Ministers body being loaded into a BMW went around the world. An hour later, pictures of the men responsible were paraded on national TV. The biggest manhunt in the history of the Balkans For sales and information contact us
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